Latest posts tagged with #2018MMM on Bluesky
#2018MMM Two 1 seeds, 2 seed, 4 seed
#2017MMM Two 1 seeds, 2 seed, 4 seed
#2016MMM 1 seed, two 2 seeds, 3 seed
#2015MMM 1 seed 2 seed two 4 seeds
#2014MMM Two 1 seeds, 2 seed 5 seed
#2013MMM Two 1 seeds, 3 seed, 4 seed
Flashback to that time my friend and colleague chose this tag team to win her first MMM #2018MMM… she’s still kinda mad I let her pick it 🤣
The vines of the plant develop their fruits above ground on stalks which then bend and push back under the ground. The fruit then grows at a depth of between 30–90 cm. image is a line drawing of the leaf, stalk, and fruit
Tonight in the Nama-Karoo in western South Africa, an Aardvark has dug up... an aardvark cucumber! Usually eating insects, this cucumber is the only fruit aardvarks eat & Aardvark cucumbers rely on aardvarks to disperse their seeds (Shoshani et al 1988) #TagTeam #2018MMM #2025MMM
#2018MMM Two 1 seeds, 2 seed, 4 seed
#2017MMM Two 1 seeds, 2 seed, 4 seed
#2016MMM 1 seed, two 2 seeds, 3 seed
#2015MMM 1 seed 2 seed two 4 seeds
#2014MMM Two 1 seeds, 2 seed 5 seed
#2013MMM Two 1 seeds, 3 seed, 4 seed
I'm saving this for posterity ⚡️ “Cheetah vs Hippo #2018MMM”
https://x.com/i/moments/979705345777037312
Holy crap, @Mammals_Suck can tweet her battle and back channel chat AT THE SAME TIME! I can barely keep from sweating through my shirt when I tweet my battle, no ability to do anything but focus on not screwing up.
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Buckle up kids, it is cheetah vs hippo time!
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So excited for this.
Surprised, the cheetah does an inelegant leap backwards while swatting at the aye aye and they fall out of the tree together. #2018MMM
The aye aye is in the same tree, knuckle deep in a hole, the tip of his finger nail just about to pierce a juicy maggot. He freezes when he senses the cheetah but the cheetah looks up and sees what he takes for a massive yet wizened bushbaby (which inhabit the grove) #2018MMM
No other cheetah has passed the grove. The cheetah jumps into a tree with a low branch to survey his territory. With their spindly legs and dull claws, cheetah are not adapted for tree climbing or lounging, but he makes a decent show of it. #2018MMM...
Another difference between the two is that the aye-aye has the largest brain-to-body ratio of any lemur. Which cannot be said of cheetahs who have been called "pin headed" by the mean spirited. Leading to the fun game of #CheetahOrBowlingPin #2018MMM...
Cheetahs have a different issue. Young cubs are stolen from the wild in E & NE Africa to supply the pet trade. They're transported in awful conditions, and many do not survive. Although cheetah are not aggressive, no wild animal should be a pet #2018MMM...
There are different customs (fomba) concerning aye-ayes. In some areas, killing them is considered taboo (fady). So depending on the region, this can mean aye-ayes might be left alone, or killed for bringing bad luck. #2018MMM...
The aye aye is rated as endangered but we don’t really know how many there are in the wild (counting rare mammals with dark fur in trees at night is…. hard). Habitat loss is a major problem for both species but they also have other, more uncommon, threats #2018MMM
The chance of smelling out another cheetah isn’t super high, cheetah live at low population densities. @sdurant and co estimate that globally there are around 7000 cheetahs left, and recommend the IUCN change their designation to Endangered #2018MMM...
As dusk falls, Anne gives up on following the cheetah and drives off to set up her camp. After sniffing all other major trees in his territory, the cheetah visits a grove of yellow fever trees to see if any intruder males or females in heat (estrus) have passed that way #2018MMM
In contrast, aye ayes are fully nocturnal and they too move a lot at night. Elizabeth Sterling found males could move up to 4 km at night, traveling through trees and on the ground #2018MMM link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-48...
The sun is setting. Cheetahs are mostly active during the day and Anne had based much of her PhD fieldwork on the idea that they would stay put at night to avoid lions and hyenas. Whoo-ee was she wrong (a theme for her PhD). Turns out cheetahs can move a lot at night #2018MMM
In the last battles, the cheetah ate the dunnart and the aye aye unnerved the coatimundi so much it retreated. Our scene is once again the Serengeti plains and once again the (still) hungry cheetah is being followed by a researcher named Anne. Aye aye pic=Nick Garbutt #2018MMM
NEXT UP: 2nd seeded Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) vs 10th seeded Aye Aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) #2018MMM
They do have impressive gnashers. Too bad they aren't up against a rotund nut but an agile, predatory cat (though we did have a cheetah in Serengeti named Coconut) #2018MMM
There is more cheetah action tonight in the second round of #2018MMM (Great Adaptations division). This time vs the Aye Aye. Speed vs long creepy finger.
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Relevant for tonight’s #2018MMM cookie cutter fight. Don’t swim over deep water trenches at night while lit from above by spotlights, or this could happen to you! www.southernfriedscience.com/the-most-preventable-sha...
Me waiting for cookie cutter shark to fight in #2018MMM
Major thanks to @bjmjarrett for telling me mid battle my hashtag was off meaning I made a major mistake and not a monumental one #2018MMM
HARAR HYENA TEARS APART BELO HORIZONTE MARMOSET!! #2018MMM
She stands on her hind legs, her long neck giving her the reach to grab the marmoset who desperately clings to the branches, the thorns making bloody shreds of the skin of his hands. But the strength of the hyena is irresistible, and she drags him out of the tree #2018MMM
There are no family members to make alarm calls to warn him. However he sees movement out of the corner of his eye and leaps higher in the tree, but the tree isn’t very tall. And the hyena is 181 stoats (40 kg) worth of mass and 3 feet high at the shoulder. #2018MMM
